The government will decide on the proposal to dismiss Mateja Vraničar Erman as a state secretary at the Finance Ministry at the session on Thursday, the Government Communication Office said after several media reported about her dismissal.

Foreign Minister Miro Cerar expressed support for Macedonia's push to change the country's name to allow it to proceed with its efforts to join the EU and NATO as he held talks with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Dimitrov in Skopje on Wednesday.

As the consultations between President Borut Pahor and the deputy groups on a new Constitutional Court judge continued on Wednesday, everything suggests that Pahor should be looking for new names, as one of the candidates has withdrawn from consideration, and the other two, one of them only informally proposed, do not enjoy sufficient support.

Alojz Rebula, one of the most acclaimed Slovenian contemporary writers, who is paired with Boris Pahor as the leading author of the Slovenian ethnic community in Italy, has died at the age of 94.

Andraž Teršek, one of the two candidates for the soon-to-be-vacated seat on the Constitutional Court, has withdrawn from the nomination process, the newspaper Dnevnik reported on Wednesday. His decision comes after the opposition Democrats (SDS) declined their support for him in talks with President Borut Pahor.

Foreign Minister Miro Cerar will visit Macedonia on Wednesday to express Slovenia's support for the name deal with Greece. Cerar will meet his counterpart Nikola Dimitrov and PM Zoran Zaev and be received by President Gjorgje Ivanov. He will also open the new premises of the Slovenian Embassy in Skopje.